Medicine: Birth Control

Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household
and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an
excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to
the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the
moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from
the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for
"gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life."

However, this was no new thing for the Right Honorable Lord Bertrand
Edward Dawson,...